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Re:How a bug in VS2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and ... by hoare on Monday August 31, 2015 @06:13PM (#10149415)
im impressed how fast a bot fetched the key from github, set up a trillion instances and did what exactly on them?

edit: my guess, some kind of crypto currency mining?

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Re:How a bug in VS2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and ... by JorgeGT on Monday August 31, 2015 @06:14PM (#10149419)
Mine bitcoin?
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Re:How a bug in VS2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and ... by rtfabro on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @10:08AM (#10152391)
Try reading the article
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